Vintage Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old vintage quotes, vintage sayings, and vintage proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people. Karl Lagerfeld
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. Oscar Wilde
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom. Cee Lo Green
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck
When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past Isabel Wolff
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity. Robertson Davies